Kato Daiki – My Turn
Satoshi’s response to Kato’s thoughts on meet-and-greet fighting was basically what he thought it would be. He basically teased him for being late but then went on to say something he wasn’t expecting; there wasn’t any fighting. The walk to the training field seemed like an eternity. It was all silent excluding the moment where the only female member of the team spoke to him and asked him about his name. ”My name is Kato.” He responded simply, not bothering to mention his family name. Kato gave a friendly smile to the girl and then offered her a question. “You look a lot like you’re from the Shizuka clan. I worked with a few of them when we helped clean up the town after…well, you know.” He obviously was talking about the events leading up to the march. “Would I be correct in guessing that?” he finally got to his question and waited for a response.
Eventually the group made their way to the training field and the silence was quickly broken by Satoshi. Although Kato didn’t physically do it, mentally he rolled his eyes at the mention of having to fight a clone to showcase their individual skills. At least they weren’t fighting it other, Satoshi was kind of changing it up a bit, but only slightly. Kato was nearly about to volunteer when Satoshi asked who would be the first to fight the clone. The only thing that stopped him was the other male genin’s eagerness to step forward first. ”I’ll think of another one soon, don’t worry” he responded as the young man looked back and talked to him.
Kato watched as the young individual charged at the shadow clone, not something Kato would do without laying a trap first but still a viable tactic. While all this was going down Kato was already hard at work preparing for his turn. With Kato’s arms crossed watching the fight he secretly fed chakra into the ground. This would allow his Earth Snare jutsu to be executed extremely fast. By the time the other genin was half way through with his fight Kato already had the roots positioned right under where Satoshi spawned the last clone. The roots sat millimeters underneath the grassy surface, waiting to strike. If Kato fed his chakra through the ground in large enough spurts the roots should be able to shoot out fast enough to be effective.
Then it was his turn. ”I guess I’m next” Kato stepped forward, chakra being fed into the ground each time his foot hit the ground after a step. He was prepare for the strike. Kato began running forward towards the clone who after lifting their left foot quickly found that a thick root has wrapped itself around them. The clone’s left foot was basically the same story. Kato was unable to continuously feed large amounts of chakra through the ground with each step now which meant the roots would not spread any further up the clones leg (right now they reached the clones bottom portion of their ankle) this meant that Satoshi’s clone was only constrained from the ankle and below.
As he charged forward Kato formed his hand signs which ended with dirt particles quickly forming around his left arm, eventually encasing his whole arm in a wall of solid dirt. This was his Fist Rock Technique. Before his left arm was completely encased Kato managed to take his shield off his back and firmly into his right hand. With a dirt covered arm on his left and his faithful shield on his right Kato was ready to kick some tail. The clone responded with throwing a good amount of kunai in his direction. He swatted away a few with his shield to the right, and blocked the others with his arm on the left, these kunai now simply sticking out of the thick layer of dirt.
Then the unexpected happened. The clone created a large wall made out of Earth. This was obviously a type of Earth Release jutsu. The wall shot up in front of Satoshi, making Kato’s charge nearly worthless. Why the clone didn’t use it under himself and rip out the roots was a mystery. Kato’s charge would not become a waste, it couldn’t, not at this point. Kato charged straight towards the wall, swung his left arm back and punched right into the giant barricade of dirt. Without even skipping a beat Kato knew was he was going to do next. His dirt cast of his left arm was now stuck directly into the wall, hanging out freely after Kato expanded the dirt a bit to allow his left arm to be free.
Kato jerked his left arm back, completely freeing it from the dirt cast and actually used the cast somewhat as a stepping stool. He jumped up, briefly landing on the cast of his left arm stuck in the wall and then jumped up once more. This offered him a shorter distance between the top of the wall and himself. Landing on top of the wall wasn’t even a goal. After jumping straight up and rolling over the top of the roll he went into for the downward kick. The roll progressed until he was ready to strike after falling down the opposite side of the wall. Obvious momentum was put solely into this kick directed right at the clone.
When the time came the kick landed successfully, but not directly on Satoshi’s head. It landed directly on the clone’s right shoulder, obviously dislocating it to the point that anyone could see it from several feet away. As the clone gripped its right shoulder Kato landed on the ground. He didn’t have any momentum built up but he did still have his shield. The final blow that the clone would see is Kato’s shield being swung and bashing it on the left side of the head, obviously ending the fight.
”So…” he huffed a little bit from the intense fight. Kato made his way slowly to his new team. ”I think it is Nadra’s turn. You might wanna get that wall out of the way too” again he let out another huff. The fight was honestly quite fun, it wasn’t really what he expected.
